Shooting in the u. S. There have been 50 more over the past six weeks. The largest one in oregon, a gunman killed nine last thursday then himself. The gunman cited the roanoke shooter in his online post. Andy parker joins us today to talk about his fight to end the countrys gun epidemic. Into a battle over Academic Freedom. Academic freedom is often negligible when it comes to sexual critique of structural critique of militarism or state power. Amy we will speak with Steven Salaita whose job offer at the university of illinois urbanachampaign was withdrawn last year after he tweeted harshly critical of the 2014 israeli assault on gaza. He is out with a new book, uncivil rights palestine and the limits of Academic Freedom. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Commander in afghanistan has altered the u. S. Account of the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital whounduz, acknowledging called
This is a very active investigation. Detectives working throughout the night and this morning weep have a lot of active leads were following on. We have had a number of people who have called with regard to subjects they had seen in the area, even those coming forward may have heard gunshots fired at that time. Deputies looking for the victims car, 2003 silver volkswagen jetta, license plate 6ppg662. Deputies believe it was stolen by the shooter who remains on the run. Happening now, explosive accusations of brutality against another bay area Sheriffs Department by inmates claiming systemic and sadistic beatings at hands of correctional officers. We expect more in santa rosa. A federal lawsuit on behalf of martinez and banks, both of santa rosa. Those inmates with more than 20 others were beaten on may 28, over five hours time. One inmate in particular was thrown to the ground, cuffed, beaten and kicked. And that guard, some dressed in black body arm somewhere ski mask, used a taser, l
Does that disqualify him from being speaker of the house . I dont think it disqualifies him. I think its a bad idea to opine on the leadership race of the body. They will get to choose the speaker of the house. They know him better. Theres a Campaign Going on over there for that office. Well let them choose the speaker and will work whatever it is. If i say to you a young man 26 years old living in oregon with a history of Mental Illness according to his own mother owned 14 guns, whats the first thing that comes to your mind. That his family shouldnt have allowed him to do it, he should have been reported to authorities there. Should have been more Mental Health Services Available for someone like that. What i know is there, many of the proposals that are out there now on gun control would not have have prevent that had attack or some of the others weve seen in the past. Unfortunately, in cases of Mental Illness or in the cases of someone who just wants a gun to carry out a crime, they
Just terrible. Yes, all right. All right. I have got plenty to say. Not everybody is liking warm temperatures they want fall like stuff. The just wait a few days. Exactly. I promise, in problems. This morning though looking good though again your ride and commute, no issues as far as weather goes. We will be battling sun glare, live look at center city a and high level cloud right now but not producing any rainfall. The heres the setup, this is what were talking about. High temperatures above average. Record are in the 90es, not close to that. Rain chance does return for friday and that will Cool Temperatures down in the weekend. Nice fall like weekend does shape up across the region. Sixtyone the warm spot at the airport in philadelphia we are looking at lower 50s in south jersey. Yesterday morning we have 40s and even 30s. We are not seeing that. Jacket weather in the suburbs, but that sunshine will go to work, once it comes up around 7 00 oclock this morning and still cloudiness ove
Carolina. 11 stormrelated deaths, two in north carolina. Some 1,300 National Guard troops called in to help 250 state troopers. The roads are still unsafe. You can drive across it, it couldco lance. Crews are desperately searching for survivors after a cargo ship disappears. One body is found. Several other are missing. The captain is incapacitated. An American Airlines pilot dies in the middle of a flight. An autopsy reveals it was a result of national causes. The Clinton Campaign takes aim at republicans. Amtrak train derailed in iraq after it hit a pile of rocks on the tracks. Seven people were hurt. Swerved to the left. Swerved to the right. We were all going, uho. The recall for almost 2 million boxes of cheerios, they were recalled as some werent gluten free. The person shooting the video carrying a handgun. All that a controversial finish. A. J. Wright appears to intentionally knock the bull out of bounds. It is detroits ball. It is what it is, we will have to learn from it and